Observance of MCS/EMS Awareness Month May 2014 in Florida, USA

Observance of MCS/EMS Awareness Month May 2014 in Florida, USA

http://mcs-america.org/index_files/Observance2014.htm

Multiple Chemical Sensitivities: A Workshop

Multiple Chemical Sensitivities: A Workshop
Full Text http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK234802/pdf/TOC.pdf

Sections

• Introduction
• Research Protocol for Clinical Evaluation
• Exposures and Mechanisms
• Epidemiology
• Key Concepts: Chemical Sensitization
• Multiple Chemical Sensitivity-What is It?
• Case Definitions for Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
• Allergy and Multiple Chemical Sensitivities Distinguished
• Design of Animal Models to Probe the Mechanisms of Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
• Antigen Specific and Antigen Non-Specific Immunization
• Neuropsychiatric & Biopsychosocial Mechanisms in Multiple Chemical Sensitivity: An Olfactory-Limbic System Model
• Neurobehavioral and Psychosocial Aspects of Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
• Diagnostic Markers of Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
• Possible Mechanisms for Multiple Chemical Sensitivity: The Limbic System and Others
• Developing Clinical Research Protocols for Studying Chemical Sensitivities
• Immunological Mechanisms of Disease and the Multiple Chemical Sensitivity Syndrome
• Considerations for the Diagnosis of Chemical Sensitivity
• Occupational Asthma
• Workshop to Develop Research Protocols for Multiple Chemical Sensitivity: Contributors
• Workshop to Develop Research Protocols for Multiple Chemical Sensitivity: Participants

How to Better Accommodate Travelers with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity - By Glenn Hasek

How to Better Accommodate Travelers with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity - By Glenn Hasek

http://www.hotelnewsresource.com/article79118.html

August, 4 2014
Green Lodging News

"Prior to one of her recent trips, Judy Smith called the motel where she was going to be staying and requested that no chemicals, air fresheners or room deodorizers be used in her room. Unfortunately, housekeeping only got the message about not using cleaning chemicals and not the part about not using air fresheners or room deodorizers."

[A new classification code is available in the Danish health-care classification system for patients with symptoms related to chemicals and scents.]

Ugeskr Laeger. 2014 May 26;176(11). pii: V10120627.

[A new classification code is available in the Danish health-care classification system for patients with symptoms related to chemicals and scents.]
[Article in Danish]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25096843

Elberling J1, Bonde JP, Vesterhauge S, Bang S, Linneberg A, Zachariae C, Johansen JD, Blands J, Skovbjerg S.

Author information:
1Videncenter for Duft- og Kemikalieoverfølsomhed, Hud- og allergiafdelingen, Gentofte Hospital, Niels Andersensvej 65, 2900 Hellerup. jelberling@dadlnet.dk.

Abstract

From July 2012, a classification code for multiple chemical sensitivity has been available in the Danish healthcare classification system. The overall purpose is to register hospital contacts in Denmark. The diagnostic code is labelled "Symptoms related to chemicals and scents", DR688A1, and classified as a subcategory to "Medically unexplained symptoms", DR688A, which is a specialization of the ICD-10 code "R68.8 Other specified general symptoms and signs". The classification was decided with reference to the present lack of scientific understanding.

PMID: 25096843 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]